Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-11-17
Red head,
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That is WHIST your nanny said.

And many more efforts at twining red
hair into scorching jokes had come to
her knowledge; but as the year ripened,
and her freckles grew apace as the color
of her hirsute covering deepened-as the
luscious juioiness of round and glorious
womanhood become more and more ap-
parent to the naked eye, Mamie Navarro
had learned to ignore all red headed jokes
and to tax Q greater and deeper pride IN
the roseate splendor of her hair.
Once red hair came very near to being
the fashion. That was when the Titan
esque brand was in large demand among
cigarette package decorators. Mamie
was ecstaJic. The world was on the brink
OF q revolution. IF the revolution came
her way, then she could snap her fingers
at the blondes and brunes and brunettes,
and shake her CORY locks in their direc-
ton until they were heartsick and des-
perate with envy. You can paint the
front walk red, and you can throw wild
Indian hue around show cese or store
front, but you cannot dye hair red,
and there Nanuie had her towheaded and
Jet locked sisters by the back of the neck
meta phorically. But the revolution did
not come Nannie's way. 1t cut across a
lot and shot up an alley. and the brown
nutted girls became the rage.
Fate is hard. Statistics show that
there is something IN the fragrant
tint of their capillary crops which keeps
go per cent. of them in constant hard
luck. Men with wide eyebrows and prom
inent sites on their skulltops for the
erection of large warehouses of common
sense refuse absolutely to have anything
to do with red headed girls, and will not
marry them because they look upon their
flaming topknots as unmistakGble bea-
7ons warning the voyager from the
dangerous shores of red hot temper.
Fiery hair has come to be accepted the
world over as an indication of fiery
temper. And some authorities say that a
red headed woman can get mad enough
in minute to crush her teeth through
cold pig iron.
mention these things just to show how
much hard luck a red haired person has
to buck against, and Mamie Navarro was
no exception.
She was engaged to Redmund Rose. He
had pale hair, but was a nice young man,
who knew enough to refrain from wear
ing red neckties or partaking of any bev-
erage that might induce red nose, and
he did this purely out of respect for the
color of Nannie's hair. Redmund was as
handsome and desirable q blonde as any
woman could wish TO win, and he would
give the last cent of his salary to glorify
his Nannie's fiery couture. He was per-
fectly gone on it. That flaming bunch of
berry red bang filed his eye with Joy and
his heart with delight. Ee wouldn't give
strand of that notorious red hair for
the same thickness of bank bills. And
as Mamie held him in quite as high es-
TEEN as he held her and her red hair. what
wonder was there that they have agreed
to noat down the stream of time togeth-
er and to begin floating on Sept. % of
the same year,
With this perfect understanding be-
tween the two persons most concerned in
this matter, my story begins. It begins
on Sept. IA, nine days before the date of
the wedding. And here, too, begins Nan
ME Nava.re's toughest streak of hard
luck. On the 18th she went down town
10 buy some presents which she wanted
to herself on her wedding day-presents
to which she would attach cards indicat-
ing that her brother, her mother and her